Life in the workhouse is, thanks to Charles Dickens, forever associated with the pitiful, hungry figure of Oliver Twist asking for more - or in the 1968 film Oliver!, singing for more. It's an image ...

The building is being restored by a group of volunteers "Please sir, I want some more." The moment when Oliver Twist, a pale, half-starved boy, asks for another helping of gruel is one of the great ...

It sparked a thousand childhood nightmares – now the original workhouse from Oliver Twist has been discovered. But a row has erupted over what to do with the building. Lorna Bradbury reports. It is ...

THESE are the forgotten faces of Midland workhouse children. The dirty-faced youngsters, most of them orphans, were pictured in a rare 19th Century photograph unearthed by an amateur historian. It ...

A grim study of more than 500 Irish child skeletons from a mass workhouse grave has uncovered the harrowing deaths suffered by the Famine’s youngest victims. Medical secrets from children buried ...

In Victorian society, the workhouse represented the underbelly of society, where anyone who was poor, homeless, unemployed or ill was sent to work and live. Before the birth of the NHS and the welfare ...

The shadow of Birkenhead Workhouse would once have loomed menacingly over the lives of Merseyside's poor and infirm. As work dried up and pennies dwindled, the workhouse was often the last resort for ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford: as part of a new series for ITV, she visited Ripon town hall and saw, for the first time, the names of her mother, her grandmother and her uncle and aunt in the workhouse ...